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Iraq: Sadr supporters step up pressure with Baghdad prayers
Thousands of supporters of Iraq's powerful Shia Muslim cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr stepped up their pressure tactics on Friday with a weekly prayer session in Baghdad's high-security Green Zone they have occupied for three weeks. Tensions in the impoverished, war-scarred country have escalated over the inability of political factions to agree on formation of a government, 10 months after parliamentary elections. Sadr once led an anti-US militia and has millions of devoted followers. Some of them stormed Iraq's parliament late last month and began a sit-in, first inside the building and then on its grounds where thousands remain. More recently, their opponents from a pro-Ir

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